Hi, seems to be the year everything wears out on my pool. Salt generator, holes in lining, now heater. I have a Raypak 2100 heater that is probably 10 plus years old (been in our house 8 years). It started having a pilot light issue and after investigating I see water dripping down to the bottom of the heater case. There’s a lot of rust which I’m assuming is the heat exchanger rusting. This water is leaking on the pilot light so I manually light it and it eventually dries out the coils to light the heater. I can smell a lot of dampness when it starts and then it eventually burns off. Is my assumption correct that it’s the heat exchanger needing replaced?
Raypak 2100 Pool Heater Dripping water
- Thread starter boilerbdub
- Start date
- Jul 21, 2013
- 52,891
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
I think you will find repairs will cost close to 50% of a new heater which becomes the threshold of replacement for me.
Open up the heater and post pics showing us how rusted things are in it.
Open up the heater and post pics showing us how rusted things are in it.
I attached a photo of the heater, you can see significant rust at the bottom and it looks damp all around.
- Jul 21, 2013
- 52,891
- Pool Size
- 35000
- Surface
- Plaster
- Chlorine
- Salt Water Generator
- SWG Type
- Pentair Intellichlor IC-60
swamprat69
Well-known member
Just from what I can see, it looks like the heater might need extensive repairs and parts replacement if it is possible to save it at all. Especially if the heat exchanger is also leaking. Probably not worth even attempting.
Thanks for the honest truth. Do you recommend any specific replacement over the other for a salt water pool?